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Radio South Atlantic May 1982

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Sinopsis

Radio South Atlantic was a short-lived clandestine radio station started by the UK Ministry of Defence with programmes aimed at Argentine troops on the Falkland islands. This programme was broadcast from a transmitter on Ascension Island which was temporarily taken away from BBC World Service. The Falklands War (: Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between  and the  over two  in the : the and . It began on Friday 2 April 1982 when  and  (and, ) in an attempt to establish . On 5 April, the British government dispatched a naval  to engage the  and  before making an  on the islands. The conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982, returning the islands to British control. In total, 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel and three Falkland Islanders died during the hostilities. This is a studio copy of Radio South Atlantic